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Separatist backers in Kashmir Valley have ignited a fresh controversy - but this time, it is a mundane, apparently harmless Rs 1,000 note which has kicked up a storm rather than stone-pelters.

In a declaration of what they "thought of India", supporters of separatist leaders have replaced the photo of Mahatma Gandhi on a Rs 1,000 note with that of Hurriyat chief Syed Ali Shah Geelani.

The image of this faux note has been doing rounds of Facebook. There is also a 'message' to India the left.

The picture of the disfigured currency is currently doing the rounds of the internet through spiteful emails and has been posted by many on the social networking site, Facebook.

The words "Go India Go - Leave Kashmir" have been scribbled on the left side of the note. The Reserve Bank of India has been renamed the 'Reserve Bank of Kashmir', emphasising the demand for a separate country with their own currency.

The series number of the note beings with "7 AK", to be read as "7 Azad Kashmir". The picture of the note has been pasted on Facebook accounts by a number of profreedom Kashmiri youth.

Earlier, pro-freedom activists had created many networking groups on Facebook dedicated to "azaadi". Kashmiri youth were exhorted to join the groups and "unite against the Indian forces". But Mahatma Gandhi is not the only victim of these "internet experts". Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah has also not been spared.

In another "campaign", Abdullah has been compared with Dracula. A grotesquely altered picture shows the CM with bloodied fangs. The image comes with a note: "My Indian masters put me on a strict diet. From now I have to ask my victim how young your age is (sic)." This picture, too, has been posted on Facebook.

Omar had come under fire recently when many youths died during firing by the Central reserve Police Force (CRPF) in different incidents.

The Valley has, of late, experienced growing instances of violence, involving a large number of Kashmiri youth who took to pelting stones at the security forces.

The resultant firing also killed quite a few men, leading to outrage across Kashmir and a crisis which was termed as the toughest faced by Omar Abdullah during chief ministership.

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